Making Learning Happen—Activities for an Interactive Classroom

Workshop Description
This workshop is designed for those who want to change the way they (and their students) use English.

• IMPROVE students' performance with language by focusing on the constructing, negotiating, and communicating of meanings.
• BECOME a designer and director of classroom instruction.
• CREATE situations that allow students to engage in authentic communication for real audiences and real purposes.
• DISCOVER ways to use students' own talk as a vehicle for learning.
• FIND how to make critical thinking, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and interpretive discussions of literature work for your and your students.

In short, learn how to help students make sense of English in ways that make sense.